AURORA | A dirt bike rider was killed and his passenger critically injured Monday night when they crashed broadside into a pick-up truck in north-central Aurora, police said.

Officers were called to East Sixth Avenue at Toledo Street at about 7:30 p.m. after reports of a vehicle crash there.

“The preliminary investigation has determined the dirt bike was operated by an adult male with an adult female passenger.,” Aurora police spokesperson Joe Moylan said in a statement. “The dirt bike was eastbound on East Sixth Avenue when it struck the side of a Ford F-350 pickup that was making a left turn onto Toledo Street.”

Both the man driving the dirt bike and his passenger were critically injured and taken to a nearby hospital, where the man later died from his injuries. The woman also sustai

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